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Lucy Kaplansky Tickets - Wanting to Achieve the Folk Singing Dream

When young Lucy Kaplansky was 18 years old, she stunned everyone when she chose to run off with her boyfriend to New York City to become a folk singer instead of heading to college at the University of Chicago. Smart decision? Maybe. Here is a music artist born February 2, 1960, who only fifteen years later after moving to New York City ended up being a clinical psychologist. Ready for another surprise? She gave up that private practice as well! Her full-time job was a singing career true and through.

Lucy Kaplansky Tickets - The Music of Kaplansky

Once she entered the music scene, she became a regular at Gerde's Folk City in the late '70s. By 1982, she became a member of the CooP, later known as the Fast Folk, and was featured on nine of the group's magazines along with the likes of Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, John Gorka, Richard Shindell, and many others. Her first album came out in 1994, entitled The Tide, released by Red House Records and achieving country-wide acclaim. By 1996, her second album came out under the name of Flesh and Bone, and several others followed upon the beginning of the new decade, starting with Ten Year Night in 1999, Every Single Day in 2001, Red Thread in 2004, and Over the Hills in 2007.

Lucy Kaplansky Tickets - The Sound of Kaplansky

She's raw and real, with only a guitar in hand a pleasant voice to which anyone can listen and be whisked away with the beautiful sounds of tried and true folk music. Not many can match just the sheer passion without any frills or performance pyrotechnics like Lucy Kaplansky.